A 54-year-old woman received a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig at NYU Langone. The pig carried a gene for producing a sugar called alpha-gal, with reduced risk of immune rejection.
NYU Langone surgeons placed the pig's thymus gland under the transplanted kidney to reprogram the patient's immune system, reducing rejection likelihood.
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